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Re:Apple Watch Series 12 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:25PM (#49633687)
Series 12 may finally fix that for you. They mention that the new heart rate sensors handle motion better.
Re:GitHub Copilot App on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:58PM (#48374630)
You can get to it wherever you want. Copilot CLI is pretty great: https://github.com/features/copilot/cli

There's support in VS Code and Jetbrains IDEs. You can access your agent sessions on the web.

(I work at GitHub, but not on Copilot)

I was thinking the same. Especially now that Obsidian has a CLI to work with the vault.

The one thing I saw in the README is that lat has a format for source files to link back to the lat.md markdown, but I don't see why you couldn't just define an "// obs:wikilink" sort of format in your AGENTS.md

Re:Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025 on Friday February 27, 2026 @02:11PM (#47184327)
Seems plausible. Travel (some international), hotels, taxis, venues, food, and entertainment. It adds up. Probably not a single day event.
Re:Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:08PM (#46711581)
As a heavy Meetup user, I can say that Bending Spoons absolutely fixed some glaring, long-standing bugs. But their massive price increases have really driven people away, and some of their attempts to grab more money (Meetup+) really rankled a lot of people. Also, search still sucks.
According to the article, the judge's memorandum said about index data access:

> Google must provide Web Search Index data (URLs, crawl metadata, spam scores) at marginal cost.

I'm guessing that the "marginal cost" of a search is small and it's not connected to the how much ad revenue that search is worth.

Re:Why we built Lightpanda in Zig on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:19PM (#46168126)
Something interesting about your comment is that HN also has a post today (https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10-25-synadia-and-tigerbee...) about TigerBeetle's support for Zig and their reason for using Zig specifically talked about wanting something for a long time horizon:

> Investing in creating a database like TigerBeetle is a long term effort. Databases tend to have a long half life (e.g. Postgres is 30 years old). And so, while Zig being early in 2020 did give me pause, nevertheless Zig’s quality, philosophy and simplicity made sense for a multi-decade horizon.

Synadia's announcement, https://www.synadia.com/blog/synadia-tigerbeetle-zig-foundat..., says:

> There are no plans to move the NATS server to Zig.

> Zig will become a Tier 1 NATS client, and Synadia will utilize Zig in resource constrained environments to bridge OT/IT for manufacturing, IIOT, connected cars, robotics and embodied AI.

Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:44PM (#45929372)
> I wonder why folks who start with roughly the same skills, intelligence and opportunities (and bank account balance!) can nevertheless end up in very different places?

External factors (aka luck), perhaps? Someone gets their resume into a job just after they made the last hire for that position. Or the car they can't afford to fix breaks down on the way to the interview.

Re:Gmail AI gets more intrusive on Friday November 07, 2025 @01:16PM (#45849212)
Cloudflare has a gmail competitor?
This is something I've wondered about. I started out in the green screen era and remember how amazingly quick those UIs were to navigate. I don't see any reason why we couldn't replicate much of that UX and development model, but deliver it to web browsers with graphical capabilities in the parts of the system that need it.

I feel like mouse+keyboard is a step down in speed of use for many tasks, but I do wonder about touch screens. For some things, touch screens can be plenty fast and the UI adapts to the task.

Curious why you say this. It says in the readme it can do 100K lines per second.
Re:US AI Action Plan on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:41PM (#44672850)
Nuclear is clean, but has other drawbacks. "Solar+Storage is so much farther along than you think": https://www.volts.wtf/p/solarstorage-is-so-much-farther-alon...
Re:The Sky's the limit: AI automation on Mac on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:21PM (#44182419)
Or maybe they'll buy it, like they did with Workflow.
Re:Why I Wrote the Beam Book on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:05PM (#44182259)
I don't know if publishers manage to get better deals from Amazon, but Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing has an annoying aspect that the ebook royalty rate falls from 70% to 30% after $9.99, which gets very awkward for a tech book you'd like to sell for, say, $19.99.

Also, piracy is rampant and Amazon doesn't do much about it. Publishers have more resources to stay on top of it, I suspect.

Re:MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 on Friday May 23, 2025 @12:44PM (#44074370)
It has become a de facto standard. There are many implementations of MCP. We'll have to see if it fizzles out or if some reasonable stewardship/governance come about, but it is very much possible for something to be a standard even without a standards body.
Re:Self-hostable webhook tester in go on Thursday May 15, 2025 @11:31AM (#43996085)
I didn't see any sort of license in the repository. If your intention is that people can self-host, it would be nice to include some sort of license so that it's clear what the terms of use are for self-hosting.

Neat looking project! Thanks for sharing!

Re:Netflix's Media Production Suite on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @02:20PM (#43549884)
Perhaps over fears of their shows getting leaked early. Apple apparently has people using Remote Desktop for severance: https://tedium.co/2025/03/29/severance-apple-remote-editing-...
Re:Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:26PM (#42783570)
Any idea what the business model is?

It seems like they might have group organizing features now, but I'd be concerned about adopting it for a group without a clear idea of how they're going to make money

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:52PM (#42067329)
"Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?"[1]

Trump is very good at covering his own language and culpability. What were Trump's actions while the mob was storming the Capitol? How long did he wait to even put forth those tweets? In his speech before they stormed the Capitol, he said[2]

"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore"

but he also said

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Does saying the latter negate the former in the minds of the mob that had been primed for nearly two months, without real evidence, to think the election had been stolen?

Does it matter that that there's evidence, presented in court, that Trump _knew_ he had lost the election and further knew that attempts to overturn the result were illegal? [3]

We all saw _with our own eyes_ what the mob did at the Capitol that day. There were people there with differing motivations and different understandings of what they were trying to accomplish by storming the Capitol. They've received differing levels of punishment as a result. But, I find it hard to not view the totality of the evidence presented to date and say that Trump wasn't trying to stay in power through unlawful means (i.e. "attempt a coup").

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur... [2]: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-s... [3]: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/jack-smith-makes-his-ca...

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:37PM (#42067077)
The only thing I've been able to see so far is that Harris has 67M votes with 81.2% reporting. Assuming the remaining precincts have the same population size and roughly same D/R split, Harris would end up somewhere around Biden's total once the count is complete.
There is a form of curation on HN and "editorial judgment" on HN and that's in the points a post has. A closer approximation of a newspaper would be possible by looking at the points of a post and maybe comparing that to other posts and then sizing headlines appropriately based on how "important" the HN community sees a given story.
Re:GoLic, injects license into source code files on Monday October 28, 2024 @01:33PM (#41973784)
Ideally, this would follow the format of reuse.software so that there's a machine-readable standard for these: https://reuse.software

I'm working on tooling that involves automated reading of this info, and it's a lot easier if the tools don't have to do fuzzier matching.

Re:Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference [pdf] on Friday June 28, 2024 @02:34PM (#40823600)
> Maybe our problem is that the country has just gotten too big to run effectively as a single 350-million person democracy, and it's time for the state governments to step up and stand up for their people.

Or, perhaps, we just need to alter some aspects of that government to run better. For example: changing the size of the House of Representatives to make it more representative. It wasn't supposed to be stuck at 435.

Switching away from first past the post voting would also help enable more diverse voices within the government.

Re:Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference [pdf] on Friday June 28, 2024 @02:31PM (#40823564)
I don't think our allies felt quite so flung about until Trump came along. Sure, administrations might engage a little differently from one another, but fundamentally they could count on the US for a very long time. Presidents did not, before Trump, throw NATO under the bus, for example.
Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate on Monday June 17, 2024 @11:59AM (#40707046)
For people wonder how this got there, the blame goes to Rep. Elise Stefanik:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2864

That bill was tacked onto a big "must pass" defense authorization and may not have survived on its own.

Here's an article with some speculation on why Stefanik introduced this bill: https://dronexl.co/2024/06/06/drone-industry-outrage-stefani...

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